England struggled with the pressure against Iceland - Kompany


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 29 Jun 2016

Britain Soccer Football - Manchester City Training - City Football Academy, Manchester, England - 3/5/16 Manchester City's Vincent Kompany during training Action Images via Reuters / Lee Smith

(Reuters) - Belgium defender and Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany has described England's exit from the European Championship at the hands of Iceland as a collective failure that defied rational explanation.

"I am shocked," Kompany, who missed the tournament with a thigh injury, wrote in his column in The Times on Wednesday. "Looking from the outside, I honestly can’t work out how it happened."

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